sound design

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Sounds a bit looney, but that was the fun part. This short screencast was from some playful experiments with Chromaphone, a great hybrid percussive virtual instrument by AAS. DAW: LogicX Captured with Screenflow.

Inspired by this silent video that coyote_fur posted on Instagram, I immediately heard a glimpse of what kind of musical climate might accompany such a strange and alien world. This was a quick little composing sketch utilizing sounds from my hand made sample libraries rigged up in Kontakt, and […]

“There’s an upright piano of the corner of your street” Was the text I received from a neighbor who knows that a) I’m a musician and b) I absolutely love sampling and recording strange and unusual sounds. So I walked down 3 houses to the corner and sure enough […]

While I realize that Stanley Kubrick’s film “A Clockwork Orange” may not be at the top of the list of ‘movies to show your children’, I was fortunate to see the film at a young age of 13. From the moment it started, underneath the strikingly bold title sequence, I heard […]

Most objects usually speak out rhythms and patterns to me as I’m doing these sound design sessions, and with two of the water heater panels in front of me, this rhythm emerged. It will inevitably end up on a future piece of music. Captured by my son on an iPhone: […]

Sometimes it’s best to be ‘hands on’ when creating custom sounds. I’m usually hands on with drums and percussion, but in this case I was working on the game over sound for the iPhone kids game app “Blackhole Joe“. I have some great sounding virtual synths, but the ones I […]

(a crude little video recorded with a Blackberry) Owning an analog synthesizer is often better than any virtual synth. I was in need of creating a custom rise within a specific time (16 bars) for a piece of music I was working on. I actually tried a few virtual […]